COUNSEL: HARD WORK IS ARCHAIC, RIGHT WORK IS IT.

So many people work hard with nothing to show for it. They toiled day and night with no result.

They get tired and frustrated. Unfortunately, they are not working right...Working Hard is different from Working Right.

Peter toiled all night but caught nothing. Not until he met the master who told him to cast his net to the right side. That was when he had a significant, net-breaking result.

Who is your master? Who is your mentor? Where do you source your inspiration from?

Until you learn to work right, you won't have much result to show.

The Inspiring Life Of Keanu Reeves

When Keanu was only three, his father left their family. They still stayed in contact for a few years until he was six. After his parents' divorce, their family moved from city to city. Because they moved so frequently, Keanu attended four high schools. 

He also struggled with dyslexia, so school was challenging for him. He eventually left high school without receiving a diploma, but is an avid reader today.

In 1993, his best friend River Phoenix passed away after a drug overdose at the age of only 23. That in itself would be enough to make even the strongest person on the world break down. That kind of thing never really leaves you.

Then in 1998, Keanu meets Jennifer Syme. The two fell in love and by 1999 she was pregnant with his daughter. But the tragedy continued when at eight-months pregnant their child was stillborn. The two were torn apart by the death of their daughter, but still remained close friends. But just 18 months later, Syme died in a car accident.

Reeves reportedly told Parade Magazine (via People) in 2006, 

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends." Unfortunately, it's a lesson he's been forced to learn well."

Keanu is a seriously charitable guy. He's known in Hollywood for giving far more than was asked of him to the people who helped make his career possible. While most actors will give some token of appreciation to the crew when filming wraps, after the success of The Matrix and its sequels, Reeves gave an estimated $80 million of his $114 million earnings to the special effects and makeup staff.

He also voluntarily took pay cuts on films like The Replacements and The Devil's Advocates so that actors like Gene Hackman and Al Pacino would agree to be in the films, while keeping the casting within the budget.

In his AMA he said that he tries to keep his life as simple as he can. And in 2003, Keanu told Hello! Magazine:

Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries.

Just a short shoutout here for a couple of reasons. First of all, Keanu Reeves is probably worth well over $100 million, yet he decides to ride the subway like a normal person. Maybe he's trying to decrease his carbon footprint, or he wants to connect with people. Either way, it's down-to-earth and generally fantastic.

Secondly, he gives up his seat to a woman without even a hesitation. He spots her holding her gym bag, and immediately offers her his seat. What a great guy!

Keanu became the caretaker for his sister, Kim, after she was diagnosed with leukemia. During his sister's decade-long battle, he has donated privately and publicly to numerous cancer charities, research centers, and hospitals.

He even set up his own charity but decided against attaching his name to it. 

So there we have it, the sad yet true story of Keanu Reeves. When he was asked how it is that, through all of his pain, he has maintained his status as one of the nicest guys in the business and stayed so grounded he said:

It's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.

DIY Home Decor Idea - 2016

You can do this yourself without breaking the bank. We have fantastic decor ideas for you and we hope you will find them interesting

1. Shell-Like Decor... You can use a paper cardboard and spray with Gold colour

2. Fabric Style Wall Decor...You piece of Fabrics can be used as wall decor

3. Thread Mirror..

4. Cupcake Decor...You will be amazed with what your cupcakes can do. Spraying them will put a nice touch

5. Your nuts and bold can add glamour to your home...

For more idea check out our Facebook page: Mide Pearl

EPIC RESPONSE - GIRL CHILD

Mark Zuckerberg Respond to a Woman on Facebook

We will do ourselves a lot of good by telling our female child that beauty plus brain is a perfect combination. 

Girls shouldn't hide behind the curtain of gender as an opportunity to settle for mediocrity.

EPIC RESPONSE - QUOTE

John Boyega’s Responds to Seeing Himself in New ‘Star Wars’ 

“I am grounded in who I am, and I am a confident Black man,”  “A confident, Nigerian, Black, chocolate man…

To get into a serious dialogue with people who judge a person based on the melanin in their skin? They’re stupid, and I’m not going to lose sleep over people.”

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Parents need to fill up their kids bucket of confidence and self-esteem so much that when others try to break through them, they will be met with utmost resistance.

(c) MidePearl 2016

Before You LEAVE your TRASH for LAWMA

The slogan "Leave trash for Lawma" is trending and there is every tendency that its here to stay in 2016 just like "Oga at the top" some years back

However, there are some lessons to learn from this slogan

Before you leave your trash for Lawma, its your responsibility to decide what to call trash.

Trash is relative. What you take as trash is not what another person will take as trash. So it's your job to decide your own trash. 

DECISION

Its your job to decide those things that pulled you back in 2015, Its your job to decide on those things that are not adding value to you.

Its your responsibility to decide about that JOB that is taking away your happiness, that relationship that is pulling you down, that friendship that is painting you black, that Church that is pushing you towards hell, that marriage that is bent on killing you.

Its your responsibility to Decide

Also, you will sort through your Trash

SORTING

Sometimes, we give up easily on things because we don't take time to sort through diligently.

Yes, the trash has been decided on but we need to sort through them. Are they really trash? Can they be recycled? Can they be given out as gift? Can they be repaired?

Most times, we discover gold from abandoned stuffs. Sort through your trash. Sort through your marriage, friendship, career, goals and you might still find those ones that can be recycled

PACKAGE

Package your trash. Even Lawma have rules. They don't enter your house to help you pack your scattered trash. They only pick the packaged ones.

Package your trash. It will save you from stress when the Lawma people come around.

ISOLATE

Isolate. Take your trash outside. Don't leave it within. It smells. Trash smells. No amount of perfume or air freshener can cover up for a smelly trash. Take the trash outside your compound.

Run away from trash. Its toxic and dangerous to your health. Run away from envy, gossip, hatred, anger, pride and those trash from within

Run away from toxic people. Run away from people with no integrity. Run fast. Run away from people with no morals, Run away from cheats. Run away from idolaters and fornicators, Run away from people with negative vibes. Run away from people who belittle you.

They smell, they stink. They are like the packaged trash. Let Lawma do the job of evacuating them.

In 2016, learn to Leave your trash for Lawma.

INSPIRATIONAL: Learn From Your Failure - 1

J.K Rowling Famous Quotes on FAILURE

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates.

I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged.

The author of Harry Potter, J.K Rowling was waitressing and on public assistance when she was writing the first part of what would become one of the best selling series in history. The book was REJECTED by a dozen publishers. 

The only reason it got published at all was because the CEO's eight year old daughter pleaded with him to publish it.

What sort of limitation are you facing today? What hurdle are you trying to overcome? You need to know that successful people are people who failed but never gave up.

Put in more effort

MAN OF THE WEEK - Damilola Owoeye

This man, who clocks 40 on December 30, 2015 is a silent achiever, a philanthropist, a gentleman, kind and observant. A leader, a listener. A father.

Damilola is a brother you wish you have. A man, who silently goes to public schools to pay school fees of the less privileged. A man who leaves behind his wealth and social status to attend to the needs of children in motherless babies home every single year

This man has a story. From zero to hero. From nothing to something. An astute wealth manager.

Damilola is a man I am happy to celebrate

Happy 40th Birthday bros....We are proud of you

Upcoming Entrepreneur (Fashion) - Oluwatobi Akintoye "T16 World of Fashion"

In 2016, a vibrant fashionpreneur to watch out for is Oluwatobi Akintoye of T16 World of Fashion

Tobi, who dusted others to be among the final four on MultiChoice Nigeria presents the Fashion Protégé. Her 2015 Ready-to-Wear Collection which she named “Timeless” was inspired by and designed for the woman who desires a closet not confined to seasons. 

In her words,  T16 World of Fashion should be seen as one who takes on timeless pieces and transcends the norm.

Let's go through her 2015 Timeless Lookbook together

Tobi is someone to watch out for in 2016

If I Had Just a Year to Live

" If I had just a year to live, how would I live differently? What exactly would I do?" 

"It was January of 1960," he said, "and according to the prognosis, I had a winter and spring and summer to live through, and would die with the fail of the leaf."

Anthony Burgess was 40 when he learned that he had only one year to live. He had a brain tumor that would kill him within a year. He know he had a battle on his hands. He was completely broke at the time, and he didn't have anything to leave behind for his wife, Lynne, soon to be a window.

Burgess had never been a professional novelist in the past, but he always knew the potential was inside him to be a writer. So, for the sole purpose of leaving royalties behind for his wife, he put a piece of paper into a typewriter and began writing. He had no certainty that he would even be published, but he couldn't think of anything else to do.

In that time Burgess wrote energetically, finishing five and a half novels before the year wad through (very nearly the entire lifetime output of E.M. Forster, and almost twice that of J. D. Salinger.) 

But Burgess did not die. His cancer had gone into remission and then disappeared altogether. In his long and full life as a novelist ( he is best known for A Clock-work Orange), he wrote more than 70 books, but without the death sentence from cancer, he may not have written at all.

Many of us are like Anthony Burgess, hiding greatness inside, waiting for some external emergency to bring it out. Ask yourself what you'd do if you had Anthony Burgess's original predicament. 

" If I had just a year to live, how would I live differently? What exactly would I do?"